Bio
Ben Wizner (@benwizner) is the director of the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. For nearly 15 years, he has worked at the intersection of civil liberties and national security, litigating numerous cases involving airport security policies, government watch lists, surveillance practices, targeted killing, and torture. He appears regularly in the global media, has testified before Congress, and is an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law. Since July of 2013, he has been the principal legal advisor to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Ben is a graduate of Harvard College and New York University School of Law and was a law clerk to the Hon. Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
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Featured work
Aug 1, 2013
Beyond Bradley Manning: The Government Has Made Its Point (UPDATED)
Jun 10, 2013
Checks, Balances, and the National Security Agency
May 16, 2012
Ninth Circuit Presses Government Lawyer on Watch Lists: “What Would You Do?”
Apr 26, 2012
The Government’s Overreach on Bradley Manning
Oct 7, 2009
The End of the Beginning? Or the Beginning of the End?
Aug 7, 2008
The Travesty Continues: Hamdan's Sentencing
Aug 4, 2008
Weekend in Camp Justice
Jul 31, 2008
"It's My Country, Too."